Poe vows to fulfill FPJ’s dream of helping poor

Leading presidential candidate Grace Poesaid the Supreme Court’s landmark decision allowing her, a foundling, to run for the highest post of the land gives her the chance to prove that she can serve Filipinos even if she lacks the political machinery of her opponents.THE FIGHT IS ON. Leading presidential candidate Senator Grace Poe exudes confidence and happiness after she the Supreme Court ruled that she is qualified to run for the presidency.

Poe recalled how some people criticized her when she ran for senator in 2013 with no government experience outside her stint as chair of the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB). She not only won but made history for garnering over 20 million votes, the highest cast for any national candidate.

Under her “Gobyernong may Puso,” Poe said farmers would receive greater assistance and poor students will get college scholarships, whether they want to study in state universities or in private schools.

Poe is running as an independent although she and her running mate, Sen. Francis Escudero, have been endorsed by the Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC), the second biggest political party in the country.

NPC spokesman Mark Enverga is the first district representative of Quezon, which has 1.1 million registered voters. He will accompany Poe and her Partido Galing at Puso as they visit Lopez, Lucban, Tayabas, Candelaria and Lucena today.

Poe said Quezon had a special place in the heart of her late father, movie icon Fernando Poe Jr. who ran for president in 2004 but lost due to alleged massive electoral fraud. She recalled how FPJ himself packed relief goods to distribute to Quezon after disaster hit the province.